Well... I did a build of this today (a normal one, not WoW64), and still, my Star Wars Battlefront II game in the EA App won't run. (The last one it works in is Wine 8.6.1). It freezes and crashes on the first load screen (can't even get to menu). I don't know why, I have other games that use the same Frostbite engine and they are fine.

I like that game, so there's not much point in upgrading Wine when there's no benefit (I have zero problems or performance issues with my Wine 8.6.1). Only that one detriment. I do generally hate being held up on upgrading things when I want to though, which is why I keep testing.

For a Proton or Wine runner, it's OK to have the odd game not work for whatever reason (use another), but for system wine I insist on 100% for the things I use it for.

P.S. Also discovered Dead Space 3 doesn't work properly with this Wine build. This is new. It loads, but it's all corruption and I fall off the world as soon as the game loads. Also, no mouse in menus once the game starts (but is fine on main menu) So that clinches it, 2 games. That won't be all.

Both problems solved, going back to my Wine 8.6.1

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Quoting: Linux_RocksPorn too. It's why VHS beat out Betamax. lol

Yep, you can thank the desire for internet porn, for the accelerated development of display technology in the early 90's. (i.e. suddenly there was a real need for higher res, 16 million colour displays :-) )

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWeird Al is a genius and I love the way he not only did this, but did it with a totally hippie "Peter Paul and Mary" kind of vibe that's totally at odds with the whole corporate culture thing.

That's melding and mocking two Crosby Stills Nash/Young songs, Carry On and Suite Judy Blue Eyes (but yes, that culture in opposition lol)

That's one of those most clever things Weird Al has done I think.

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Quoting: PenglingHow many buzzwords does this guy use? Yikes!

Buzzwords are a pet peeve of mine and as long as the execs can keep coming up with presentations full of them, it won't be them losing their jobs.

Listen to how this flows, he nailed it :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4 [External Link]

I especially hate IT parroting full of buzzwords. I wish those twits realized how dumb they sound, it's a turn off for me.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyNot gonna disagree. But it does suggest that if we could just make recognition and ego operate as a bigger reward than money, we'd have a lot of problems whipped.

When you put it that way, yes I see that as being better. You can't fight human nature. Rechannel it :-)

I haven't got a competitive bone in my body... that's why I'm a loser. However, it's the kind of loser that everybody loves lol

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The need to compete against other people rather than cooperate is a bug, not a feature, of humanity :-)

Even people who cooperate, try to out-cooperate others. If the reward isn't money, it's recognition and ego.

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Quoting: PyreticIs it without faults? God no. Just last week, so many articles have come out talking about Godot's horrendous inefficiency...

Well, now that Godot is driven by greater need, it's going to have more momentum and there are going to be more people taking interest. It doesn't matter now what smarmy backpedaling comes out of Unity, it's going to be happening. The Godot engine is going to get better and more versatile.

Look what happened to our graphics environment when heavy hitters took interest. There are genius programmers working on Mesa. Wine and related technologies too, I scoffed at that horseshit 10 years ago. ("why would you")

XFree86... as soon as it was forked (because of a very silly and petty attribution clause that people didn't like) and those silly people holding development back were out of the picture, development of Xorg took off.

Git... adverse licensing clauses of a proprietary tool they were using (Bitkeeper) that got the kernel devs' license revoked*, caused Linus to whip up a prototype (he was under a clause that forbade anybody from working on a SCM system for 2 years) and pass it along, and now Git is probably the most common way to get source code for anything. There are still projects that cling to SVN and Hg, but most use Git.

Lots more examples of necessity being the mother of invention, in our environment. This is one of the biggest strengths of open source software and licensing that allows you to do that.

*Bitkeeper/Bitmover forbade anybody from making an import/export tool to migrate code to/from bitkeeper. When one person did, the license was revoked.

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Quoting: JuliusThe term might be older than you in fact.

Older than my gaming/computing days, 1985 Commodore. Other than some poky-stabby use of a pharmacy dispensary computer, I wasn't using computers pre-1985.

I think it was about 1987 or so when we got a DOS computer at home. I had a few silly games on 5.25 inch floppy that I got from others. Back then you'd sys the disk and configure DOS for the game and boot with it :-)

My first exposure to Unix was around then too, the university campus I went to had a Unix environment. "The genuine AT&T Unix" as boasted by profs lol

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You guys make me feel like an old nerd or something... I've never seen "SHMUP" before lol

(I had to see the list of games to clue in that it was a contraction of "shoot em up"... rather than some new kind of RPG acronym or something)

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Quoting: GuestBefore I test out the fix myself, does it also apply to the GOG version? I'd imagine not, but I don't feel like I will play so soon anyway.

According to a reply below, this specific edit does, but you're right to ask that question in regard to binary patching or editing. The binaries will be different.

Back when they broke it for me (3rd major update I think) by generating AVX instructions with the compiler for audio events there was a binary patch. This patch did not work on the GoG version, so I had to search for the hex patterns myself and change them to what would be no-ops. I thought I found them all, but I wound up with a few crashy spots (that could be avoided). Possibly some of those patterns weren't actually the instructions I was looking for. I went back to the original GoG installer and installed the incremental patches but stopped at that one. They soon fixed it.

It's not guesswork, the person who came up with that will have disassembled the program to find it. Because CDPR are nice, you can easily do that. (i.e. not encrypted or obfuscated with tricks to break tools)

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